Job 40:8 Cross References - Geneva

⁸ Hide them in the dust together, and binde their faces in a secret place.

³ Thinkest thou it good to oppresse me, and to cast off the labour of thine handes, and to fauour the counsel of the wicked?

² The liuing God hath taken away my iudgement: for the Almightie hath put my soule in bitternesse. ³ Yet so long as my breath is in me, and the Spirit of God in my nostrels, ⁴ My lips surely shall speake no wickednesse, and my tongue shall vtter no deceite. ⁵ God forbid, that I should iustifie you: vntill I dye, I will neuer take away mine innocencie from my selfe. ⁶ I will keepe my righteousnesse, and wil not forsake it: mine heart shall not reprooue me of my dayes.

² Then the wrath of Elihu the sonne of Barachel the Buzite, of the familie of Ram, was kindled: his wrath, I say, was kindled against Iob, because he iustified himselfe more then God.

⁵ For Iob hath saide, I am righteous, and God hath taken away my iudgement. ⁶ Should I lye in my right? my wound of the arrowe is grieuous without my sinne.

² Thinkest thou this right, that thou hast said, I am more righteous then God? ³ For thou hast said, What profiteth it thee and what auaileth it me, to purge me from my sinne?

⁴ Against thee, against thee onely haue I sinned, and done euill in thy sight, that thou mayest be iust when thou speakest, and pure when thou iudgest.

²⁷ Because the Lord of hostes hath determined it, and who shall disanull it? and his hande is stretched out, and who shall turne it away?

¹⁸ And your couenant with death shalbe disanulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand: when a scourge shall runne ouer and passe through, then shall ye be trode downe by it.

⁴ God forbid: yea, let God be true, and euery man a lyar, as it is written, That thou mightest be iustified in thy words, and ouercome, when thou art iudged.

¹⁵ Brethren, I speake as men do: though it be but a mans couenant, when it is confirmed, yet no man doeth abrogate it, or addeth any thing thereto.

¹⁷ And this I say, that the couenant that was confirmed afore of God in respect of Christ, the Lawe which was foure hundreth and thirtie yeeres after, can not disanull, that it shoulde make the promise of none effect.

¹⁸ For the commandement that went afore, is disanulled, because of the weakenes thereof, and vnprofitablenes.